REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 15, 2016 — Microsoft Corp. and Code.org on Tuesday unveiled the Minecraft Hour of Code Designer, a coding tutorial for students and educators created for Hour of Code, an annual, ...

Since its founding in 2013, Code.org has been intertwined with Microsoft. Co-founder and CEO Hadi Partovi, a former Microsoft intern and then engineer, launched Code.org so every child in the U.S.

When you think about hackathons and coders building something quick and dirty, you might envision a dark dorm room at Harvard filled with pizza boxes and empty Red Bull cans. That’s because the only ...